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February 10, 2017

Moorland Blanket CAL :: Part 6

I am love love love loving all this virtual Summer Living, daydreaming about gentle warm breezes and little fluffy clouds drifting across an endless blue sky...............sigh...............so so so good! I had an idea when I was designing this blanket back at the end of last summer that it would bring much happiness and gladness into these drab, grey winter days. I anticipated the need for a reminder of warmth and colour, summer memories and happy vistas in these days that have long nights and low light levels. And this blanket journey has delivered me Summertime in spades, it really has.

I was also thinking earlier about the sounds of the moorland, about how subtle and distant they often are, yet how sweet at the same time. Do you know what the call of the Skylark sounds like? It is oh so beautiful and we are often treated to snippets of it when we walk on the moorland in the summer. In fact, it's the perfect soundtrack for the Moorland Blanket - please do take a few moments to have a listen { h e r e } and pretend for a moment that you are high up amongst the heather clad hills..

Ahhhh....I am such a lover of a feel-good bit of day dreaming, you just can't beat it!

It has been so good to immerse myself in the soothing, beautiful shades of blue as I've worked the last section of this blanket. Like I said last week, these are my most favourite of all colours and the tranquility that they bring to my heart and soul is wonderful. I hope you're going to enjoy the summer skies this week too.

There are only fifteen stripes to complete in this last part of the blanket, using Storm Blue, Cloud Blue and Duck Egg (with a little Wisteria thrown in).

*When you come to crochet the final stripe in Cloud Blue, you will need to create a flat top edge*

This is very easy to do - simply follow the Neat Wave pattern for the first row of the stripe (a row 3 pattern repeat, starting with a ch-3). When you reach the end of this row, turn, then chain 2. Now work 1 dc in each stitch across.....

....remembering to crochet your last dc into the top of the ch-3 from the previous row.

You should end up with a lovely neat top edge to your sky.....

And that...................is all your neat waves complete, and your Moorland Blanket journey almost at an end. It's bitter sweet isn't it? I love having a finished blanket to snuggle and smooch, but there is most definitely more than a fleeting feeling of loss once the journey is over.

I want to chat a little about the next two weeks and the remainder of the CAL, but first, I'd like to share some photos shared on my Facebook and Instagram pages (use #moorlandcal and #moorlandblanket on Instagram)...

I have really, really enjoyed seeing so many gorgeous pictures of your blankets taking shape all over the world, bringing cosy comfort into your homes and family life. The shared experience of making this journey together has been magical, and I have felt the warm fuzzies stream into the Attic I can tell you!

So now that you've completed all one hundred and fifteen stripes, what's next? Well, we'll be taking a break next week - I thought it would be useful to schedule in a "catch-up" week for those of you who joined in with the CAL a little later or find you are working at a slightly slower pace. This is a good opportunity to get all those pesky ends tucked away and take stock of the yarn you have left ready to edge the blanket and create a border.

When I designed the colour sequence for the stripes, I had to think ahead and make sure there would be enough yarn left after all the stripes were finished to create a border. You will have noticed that the majority of the colours in the Moorland Yarn pack have been used equally throughout the blanket (8 stripes each), with the exception of Lime and Storm Blue which have only 6 stripes each in the blanket. This should mean that you have more of these two colours left - a good way to take stock of yarn quantity is to use digital kitchen weighing scales. I ended up with 46g left of both Lime and Storm Blue, and roughly 30-33g of the remaining colours.

You'll need approximately 20g of each colour for the border, so there should easily be enough if you have managed to work your blanket using the tension/sizing guidelines given in the tutorial.

If you really dislike either of these colours (Limegate!!!!), it should be possible for you to use any of the colours you have left over, providing you have at least 20g to play with. We'll be chatting much more about all this in the final part of the CAL, which will be on Friday 24th February.

So now, lets take a look at the stripes for this week - your last stripe from Part 5 should be Duck Egg - that was stripe number 100.

And here is the colour information for Part 6 : stripes 101-115, working from the bottom upwards.

Remember each stripe is worked in two rows, so 20 stripes = 40 rows of crochet.

*Please note - stripes written in *red text* are additional stripes to be worked only if you have 2 yarn packs and are making a double bed size blanket. If you have one yarn pack, please ignore the red!

101. Wisteria

102. Cloud

103. Storm

104. Cloud

105. Duck Egg

106. Wisteria

107. Cloud

108. Duck Egg

109. Storm

*Cloud* (optional for large size)

*Duck Egg* (optional for large size)

*Storm* (optional for large size)

110. Duck Egg

111. Cloud

112. Storm

113. Cloud

114. Duck Egg

115. Cloud (*2nd row of this stripe is made using all dc stitches to form a flat top edge*)

Hi, I just found your blog when I was browsing on the internet and found your blog is very inspiring. I really like your colorful design. I like crochet and knitting too, but crochet does me my wrist hurt sometime. Does it ever happened to you too? Wish you have a nice day!

Is anyone making a cushion from the left over yarn? Maybe 2. ? Just wondering whether to do the wave both sides????? The colours have been a joy to work with Lucy, it was/ is a great idea, thanks SO much.

Absolutely love this blanket. I'm making it for my daughter's birthday. Her name is Heather and I made a "Heather hills" themed quilt for her many years ago. I love the stitch and the colours are stunning....even the lime!! Bit behind as I can only do it when Heather isn't around (she's nearly caught me a couple of times) can't wait to get to the blue sky.

I've been reading your blog for five years. I've crocheted since I was 7 years old. My granny taught me. I have ordered your Attic24 Cosy colors and simply can't wait to start a blanket using this pattern. My order is coming all the way to Tennessee, in the good ole USA! Thanks for the INSPIRATION!!! and putting these lovely colors together...

So enjoying this pattern Lucy! I am way behind mainly because I am working on other WIPS at the same time but I am not in a hurry as when it's finished I will miss working on it! Also wanted to say that I am getting neater edges by doing ch1 and dc into the first stitch and a standing treble on the other row that starts in the middle of the pattern repeat. Do 350 stitches so it's going to be gorgeously huge!!

I laughed to myself as I read the first line of this post. I'm in the middle of an Australian summer and I came to your blog to get my virtual dose of winter! Not that our winter (I'm in North Queensland) gets even remotely close to anything you would experience in a winter, but I can dream!

I'm usually quite relieved when autumn and winter arrive as I'm working pretty hard in the garden all spring and summer, no time for crafty things. So winter is a time to make all those things that I've been designing in my head while I'm digging and weeding and planting. Dogs to walk too so that gets me out in the cold and rain quite enough.
Somebody remembers Rosedale chimney! I walked there with my Dad from our holiday cottage near Hutton-le- Hole in 1952. I was really upset to see it had gone several years later.

Making the neat wave blanket from all my left overs. Then I can buy some more.
Love your blog Lucy and all your project.

Just about to start the week 6 stripes. What dimensions should the finished blanket be? (It is perhaps written somewhere but I cant find it) Thanks Lucy I love how my blanket looks and its been great to be part of a CAL group.

Am on stripe 67 now, trailing a bit but still enjoying it. Really looking forward to getting to the blues..my favourite colour. It covers my lap nicely now which is why I always crochet a big blanket in winter. This old farmhouse can get rather cold.

I have to tell you ... I just started my Moorland afghan (I dislike the word 'blanket' as demeaning to the process:) yesterday - at last! It was the oddest thing ... as I sat and read my way through the ripple stitch tutorial, suddenly I felt as if you were sitting right beside me, telling me what to do next.

Was a cozy and surprising feeling. Am enjoying the process - really like the idea that I will have a bit of authentic blooming heather in my American home.

Don't know where I went wrong as the width is right but the length is far too long. I have finished after row 91 so will have lots of blues left to use for another project.
I have recently been given a Clover Amour hook and love it. It is so easy to hold and use.

Dear Lucy, I am excited about your combination of colours, and I appreciate so much your sharing of all your talent and knowledge! The coast ripple blanket was the very first blanket I ever did. Now I enjoy working on the Moorland blanket. What I would like is a few sheep to apply on the Moorland. I wonder if you would enjoy to create a little tutorial for such?? Thank you very much for all the pleasure your blog has brought to me thus far.

I'm running about 3 weeks behind. My yarn didn't arrive until the day before part 2. Then I wasn't enjoying the wave pattern so it took me a couple weeks to find what worked for me. I'm doing your raindrops pattern and it's lovely!

Lucy--I'm 1/2 way through part 4, and doing the extra rows and the 301 stitch size. I think my blanket is gonna come out a little shorter than I'd like, even though my gauge is on. Can you suggest where/how/what color I might slip in a few more stripes? I know you worked long and hard on the beautiful order of it all, and I don't want to mess up the perfection. But I really know that Mr Tall Husband is going to have toes stick out if I don't lengthen it. Thanks.